UK TV Temporary Faults 1978-2020 - Part 3 2017-2020

[@jamesjohnson8279]

The Britain’s got Talent one was wild because I’m pretty sure it’s the only one I’ve actually experienced live. It was so surreal with all of the failed audition tapes (which we only saw like 30 seconds of), and when they blamed the weather we all just lost it at home it was hilarious

[@joannegray5138]

"I'm ever so sorry for this; you're watching BBC2" - at last, some honesty and culpability from Auntie Beeb.

[@masterofthyyeetus5277]

Underrated comment xD

[@tomhuh1249]

R.I.P BBC ONE

[@masterofthyyeetus5277]

@@tomhuh1249 BBC One broke down?

[@mizukittyakinyama]

@@masterofthyyeetus5277 not as far as i know but i don't watch TV so i probably wouldn't know

[@rory828]

@@masterofthyyeetus5277no

[@betaman7988]

Can vividly remember the Britain's Got Talent breakdown. Took a good 10 minutes to get it back IIRC.

[@teriofshalott]

I remember watching CBBC in the mid 90s, with Kirsten o’Brien and a male presenter talking to the camera from the garden, when the transmission suddenly cut. A few minutes later it briefly came back to show both presenters and Kirsten asking “how long are we covering for?” before cutting off again. I was very young at the time but for some reason it stuck with me, I watched a lot of CBBC but only saw something like that once.

[@ashooaway]

I remember an incident where it was a Glastenberry Concert with Stormzy in his big performance suddenly the TV started glitching a lot and with some noticable audio glitches. In the end it was only for a few minuites but that on BBC 2 was the only ever Temporary Fault I've ever seen.

[@jojojojo4332]

let me be the first one to ask, did it annoy you ?

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Nicky Campbell show is always experiencing some technical difficulties thanks to the weather conditions

[@Redrally]

I wonder if the Salford studios are relying on wireless for some of its receivers/transmitters?

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

@@RedrallyI don’t know to be honest

[@KezKaz]

I remember Britain’s Got Talent was showing last year, the bad weather conditions around most of the UK caused the channels to de-sync and show the engineer time clock for about a good 2 minutes

[@marspersonal1]

i enjoy the voice of the man on BBC one at the beginning of the vid. soothing, and somehow his script seems more natural and less rehearsed

[@Shea7TDM]

i remember an incident on bbc one where the audio on antique roadshow was cut off randomly and it took them about 5 minutes to fix while switching between the error and tv show screen multiple times. the only thing is is that i can’t remember what year it was in, but definitely between 2016 and 2020.

[@EricE549]

8:44 perfect ending

[@AEY294]

“I’m sorry about your mom”

[@timecapsule.]

The BBC One breakdown music for 2020 sounds like the Home screen muisic for the Nintendo 3DS.

[@mediocreretro]

1:47 Ah I remember this one. It was pretty stormy that night if I recall correctly.

[@segaking5846]

Iirc Didn’t the tower get struck by lightning

[@tobiasl8262]

I remember seeing this when I was 8 and it scared the shit out of me for some reason.

[@samhobbs6517]

5:34 I actually remember seeing this live

[@lukepurdie]

Same

[@QF_Dan72]

4:23 Even BBC Two hated the new Top Gear and ends up having an issue

[@boimna5056]

Lmao

[@FROZTYBAEEEEE]

Every year I watch BGT since I was 3 but because I missed this one I had to catch it up on ITV2 the next day and I feel bad for anyone watching ITV during the semi final for waiting while it glitched a little. Atleast I didn’t get scared tho

[@catz4life625]

I can’t remember when it was but in the 2010s I think I was watching CBBC and the cut straight from the CBBC ads to the studio where there was nobody until a guy with headphones walked across the camera and then it cut to ‘sorry technical difficulties’ or something. Quite amusing

[@coolcattigger]

If I remember, the act was about to start and that’s when it cut. It was disappointing to see what it was, and the act ended up going home

[@davidrileynyc5702]

Big Questions Studio.exe has stopped working

[@masterofthyyeetus5277]

Starts with Big Questions, ends with big questions

[@murderer2022]

xD

[@QF_Dan72]

lol

[@lxdimension]

Anyone have the technical fault from 3rd or 4th Jan 2003 on bbc1 during an FA Cup game. I still have the fault music in my head to this day. I remember thinking the scene was so iconic of the time and it personified the feeling of another new year venturing in to the 21st century. The visual backdrop was the cart wheelers on the roof of a skyscraper as a still image from the ident. If anyone can ever find that and upload it i'd be very grateful! Thanks

[@Ukrainetoyrusubanexplorer]

I don't think so

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Not me unfortunately

[@sweetheartangellic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2SoZZ-Ye6iie8Usi=mzRXVglHPOEq6_XF at 9:35 I think there is the one youre talking about, not sure if its the exact same one tho

[@NCRApalitProgram]

WHY DID THE MAN TURNED INTO A GIRL AT 5:31

[@pianoman1396]

I wonder what they do in the studio while there’s a live broadcast and they’re told there are technical issues. Do they stay on set and mill around or what?

[@wiintendo9609]

2:48 has the same music as the first breakdown in part 2

[@U.RBESTUDIOPRODUCTION]

THIS 😢WILL YOU ARE UKRAINIAN DAVID AND KOREA GROUP STAGE ROUND 1 ON SSSSAAAMMMEEEE MMMMUUUSIICC

[@katybateman81]

I felt sorry for the poor continuity lady in the last clip! She sounded like she was getting a bit flustered.

[@zennieakarineko3276]

brutal glitches be like: NOPE! NOPE! THATS NOT YOUR FRIEND THATS A DEMON

[@ACBlackJ0ck]

We can get live video from outer space but transitions from a rainy Salford is too difficult for the BBC.

[@sickbozzer]

5:32 now that’s a sight

[@Majiniko99]

They are always trying to annunce on the mic to update the situation on BBC as I see... In France, in France 2 channel they are lunching a song with a message at the bottom to apologize for the technical issues. Without information about update. It happned in Télématin (a morning TV-live program for actualities)

[@droid1008]

why did i watch all of these

[@LewisDoesEverything]

2:02 i was watching virgin media when this happened so instead of this we got a VM program offline screen

[@SOSOwner]

As far as I know, that "programme offline" screen never showed-up on our TV, and we had Virgin Media at that time.

[@Matthewdoesmc81]

I remember for us we were watching sky it did some strange colour bars and text on the screen

[@MatthewHajjar-Betters591]

Part 4 when?

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

2018 beast from the east and storm Emma

[@Sgptransport]

i was watching live for the bgt fault

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

I have too

[@FROZTYBAEEEEE]

I didn’t but I saw the semi final the day after on ITV2

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Did you

[@scarletrussell3719]

Same here I was watching it on a school night and in my brain just said: school night wasted!

[@kelsie-rae]

Poor Nicky she always gets a technical issue when’s she’s on air🤷‍♀️

[@mrneptune64]

the itv soundtrack goes hard

[@IdentCircle]

You added our breakdown! Family brain games one

[@literallyfrankjaeger]

what's the itv break music?

[@CowboysNo1Fan]

TNT-9 played popular hits like their namesake song TNT by AC/DC. BBC and other British TV networks played free to use music. So what if the Big Four networks played ultra popular bops like Radioactive, Believer and Blinding Lights?

[@thebetaman]

You're right, Play UK (until ITV Digital died) played music during the day. However, the sounds that ITV/BBC/Channel 4/ Five are original works and are specifically designed to provide entertainment while things preform breathen't.

[@BrimmySP]

The first one sounds like Tree from BFB.

[@BehIsReal]

Agreed!

[@elynaxgd]

you just exploded my mind

[@Mr_Controller64]

Why bro got a point?

[@stephrichards4611]

They can put a man in the moon but a bit of wind in Salford and its game over!!

[@fen0221]

I wonder who does the voiceover? And is that always live?

[@isaacgamer9591]

The voiceover is done by shifts so one person in the morning another at the afternoon and then for normal non-live shows for the evening.

[@isaaclowe8177]

It's done from the Playout suites for the respective channels. Depending on the channel and which site the Annos are coming from, that may be White City, Chiswick Park, or Media City Salford.

[@asp95video]

in 2020 the BBC can't use a backup link via fiber or internet?

[@ethanch3011]

Also they can't account for multiple technical issues, I remember once BBC News fell off air because their entire technical desk - where the change outputs, etc - crashed entirely and had to be rebooted forcing them to air a pre-recorded edition of the News.

[@isaaclowe8177]

Nope basically. You'll manage fibre for well fitted facilities like professional TV Studios or larger football pitches, but your average fibre won't do the 1.45-ish dedicated Gbps needed for a facilityline connection to BT Tower (aside from the fact that costs nearly £25K a year to rent). So if you're doing a touring programme like TBQ or QT, a Satellite link is the way to do it. Although LiveU IP links are now gaining popularity, having taken a big chunk of the Newsgathering market, and a smaller bit of the contribution for lower budget sports like Badminton and Hockey where Satellite would be really expensive.

[@asp95video]

​@@isaaclowe8177 Any basic internet connection gives you 15-20mbps upload speed, with this bandwidth they can put a mp4 encoded backup stream. Any Twitch streamer is a test case. And it's a backup, 3-5 seconds of delay is not a problem. LiveU is an even worse technology and now is widely used

[@isaaclowe8177]

@@asp95video Simply wouldn't meet delivery standards I'm afraid. We require 45Mbps aggregate for MPEG4-10 delivery according to DPP spec. And the delay really would be prohibitive because there's only so far out of sync the accessibility insertion software for subs and AD can handle between main and reserve inputs. Another thing you've got to bear in mind is the contracts for venue usage. There are more legal issues and vulnerability points than you might initially consider for venue internet access to the point where it's rare to bother unless there's a suitable BT Cabinet nearby to plug into directly, and often for events like this production internet access will be satellite delivered (although 4g bonding is now common with budgets tightening). In the case of the Big Questions the blame for the dropouts can quite firmly be put on the OB company who, while providing main and reserve uplinks, failed to ensure the uplinks were spaced and secured sufficiently to avoid the predictable wind loading. As for LiveU... I have no idea what you're on about, its the best product we've ever seen in the IP Video space capable of producing a good result on some *terrible* connectivity profiles. Other industry competitors like ATEME and Nevion really don't manage well unless they're on dedicated bandwidth. LiveU backpacks are miraculous, totally strap on and go walkies from the middle of the countryside to outside Wembley during a final. Totally sold me on an IP contribution future.

[@itskdog]

​@@asp95video it's not the delay that's the issue, there's no interactivity, it's the quality. Broadcast TV has a certain level of quality that's expected, you can't do MP4-style video compression on TV if you can help it, especially from the big 4 companies (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5) or paid TV like Sky or BT.

[@RobertoFornaro]

6:30 at 0.5 speed = instant drum and bass

[@LeeSmith-cf1vo]

I wonder why they don't put trailers for upcoming programs on the technical difficulties screen. Should be quite easy to do these days. Also, I'm quite surprised by the number of these that get blamed on weather. For an OB this is understandable but when the program is coming from a dedicated studio - which should have multiple redundancies - it seems quite odd. Did the weather really knock out multiple Internet connections from multiple suppliers all at the same time?

[@Corvuschorus5685]

Yeah, you'd think with it being mostly up here in Manchester they'd have more weather protection, seeing as we have crappy weather here more often than an MP tells a lie.

[@IAMSTEVEBECAUSEJACKBLACK]

PART 4

[@PrinceSulo]

2027 for part 4

[@direwolfxtreme6217]

I've watched this compilation, and while this is super fascinating to watch, it seems that Britian often has trouble with its connections. I understand that weather seems to be a big factor, but what else was at play? If anyone knows why, please tell me in a reply. I do not live in the UK, so I'd love to hear what you all have to say. I like learning new things.

[@Decoder0007]

It’s literally just terrible weather

[@direwolfxtreme6217]

@@Decoder0007 Nothing else? No malfunctions? No hacks? No mistakes? No nothing? Just weather?

[@Decoder0007]

@@direwolfxtreme6217 no p much just bad weather. basically all of what the uk is known for

[@chloeebaaker]

I can back up the other commenter! The weather is just…awful. That’s the only way to put it 😂

[@direwolfxtreme6217]

@@chloeebaaker I didn't know the weather over there isn't that good. I've always wanted to visit though.

[@0xEARTH]

poor Big Questions.

[@arlofirstchannel]

Seriosly. Don't be mad with BBC One 😠

[@U.RBESTUDIOPRODUCTION]

​@Band yeah but I'm Russian but I have a good idea what BBC 1

[@nachovyofficial]

Only one i’ve ever seen was at 1:50

[@JoshuaTaylor01]

2023 channel 4 broke down during the f1

[@lukepurdie]

The 2020 one I was watching it buy I changed the canel to cbbc

[@luisreyes1963]

And now for something completely different...JK. 😆

[@dillon1012]

It's kinda sad that the screens have simplified to the point where I mistook the thumbnail as a windows 10 blue screen.

[@Ph03n1x_0n_P4wz]

The bgt one I remember watching live and then the next day on itv news it said someone pulled the plug and it cost severel thousand to fix

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Who'd have thought people would watch this

[@msie6262]

Blah blah blah I apologise